CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
|---|---|
| British and Anglo-Saxon Churches.—Intercourse with Rome.—EarlyCorruptions | [Page 1] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Divisions amongst Ecclesiastics.—The regular and secular Clergy.—ThePope favours the former.—Exemptions from Episcopal Jurisdiction.—Habitsof the Friars | [43] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Progress of Grievances under the Norman Princes.—Papal Interference.—Legates.—Collisionof Roman and English Forms of Law—Inconveniencesattending it | [47] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Monasteries.—Their Usurpation of the Rights of the Clergy.—Impropriations.—Evilsof the System | [60] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Early Reformers.—Waldenses.—Wickliffe.—Lollards | [75] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Luther.—Erasmus.—Sir T. More.—New Translation of the Bible.—Demandfor it | [96] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Cranmer.—The Divorce.—The Supremacy | [111] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Dissolution of the Abbeys.—Church Property.—Immediate Consequencesof the Dissolution | [135] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Cromwell.—Gardiner.—Bonner.—The Act of the Six Articles.—Sermonsof those Days.—Proposed Disposal of Ecclesiastical Property.—Articlesof 1536.—The Bible in Churches.—Bishops’ Book,—King’sBook | [165] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Edward VI.—Advance of the Reformation.—Erasmus’s Paraphrase.—Homilies.—Cranmer’sCatechism.—Office of Communion.—Bookof Common-Prayer.—Time of Service, and Length.—Primer.—Articlesof 1553.—Moderation of the English Reformers | [196] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Hooper.—Puritans.—Expectations of the Roman Catholic.—Edward’sDeath.—Lady Jane Grey | [235] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Mary.—Suppression of the Reformation.—Persecution of the Reformers.—Fox’sActs and Monuments | [252] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Elizabeth.—Her Accession.—Her Caution.—Reformation again triumphant.—Returnof the Exiles.—Jewel.—Injunctions of Elizabethcompared with those of Edward.—Progress of the Puritans.—TheReformation not completed.—Conclusion | [276] |
A SKETCH
OF THE
REFORMATION IN ENGLAND.